The video tells a silent story of a woman and her everyday life in Finnish society. Her life changed suddenly and finally because
of an unexpected sudden attack. As a result of the attack the person was clinically dead for five minutes.

2009 Other Colours, installation
In the exhibition Taabor 09, old cottage of wooden shoemaker, Nurmijärvi, FI

Besides I am Red I presented in the exhibition Taabor 09 an installation called Other Colours, which was set in
an old cottage of a wooden shoemaker. This Other Colours -project also featured a soundtrack with translator Tuula Kojo
reading the novel Seitsemän veljestä (The Seven Brothers, 1870, Finnish classic) by Aleksis Kivi in Turkish language.
In Nurmijärvi, the Mount Taabor is the place where Aleksis Kivi, the author of The Seven Brothers lived and which
he had renamed after the Holy Bible. Both these works, I am Red and Other Colours, spoke together with different cultural colours and voices, still
having mutual tints and connections — somewhere deep inside the human nature.

The inspiration for I am Red artwork / project has arisen from the novel My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk.
The theme of the exhibition at Art Center Mältinranta was red colour and I took the conceptual viewpoint
to this theme: the red colour spoke of himself, with words, passionately. Excerpts of Pamuk's text in this work are
handpainted in gold letters, putting my soul into the miniaturist's world.
This project also started the co-operation with Finnish translator Tuula Kojo, who has translated Orhan Pamuk's
works into the Finnish language.

The work is conceptual and environmental, situated both outside and inside an old mill, in the landscape of
Laha rapids (Lahankoski mill, 1892) Pornainen, Finland.
The work is tripartite: outside golden (leaf gold) rings around an old handcrafted oaken water pipe and a
philosophical sentence by Confucius with golden metal letters on the wall of the mill, and inside the mill
cellar a human voice humming a Gregorian-like chant.
Every place and architecture has its own memories and memoirs. The work was homage to this place and its
history.

1994 I See Stars All Around Me, video (part of installation), loop

This video was made for a project with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tampere, Finland. It was a time when Finland
was just considering to take part in the European Union. That's why the museum asked the artists to process the
Finnish culture and character in their works. The final artworks were presented in the shop windows in Hämeenkatu,
the central street of the city of Tampere. The installation was made
up of a landscape video with 15 Finnish proverbs, photographs of a Venice beach and coloured Finnish birch whisks. The
window installation also had a soundtrack loop with voices of birds, lambs, cows and other nature voices of Finnish rural
landscape. The soundtrack was heard on the street.

Kohtaamisia exhibition was part of Helsinki European Capital of Culture 2000 -happenings via Uusimaa Regional Council.

Together with the exhibition there was an artwork exchange performance named Pornainen - Roquebrun
2000 / Tête à tête (kahden kesken), between 25 Finnish and 25 French artists.

Kohinaa 9.8. - 30.8.1998 Lahankosken mylly, Pornainen FI

Finnish contemporary art with a pinch of local history. The place of exhibition was an old Lahankoski mill (Lahankosken
mylly) and its environment, built by commercial counsellor August Eklöf in 1892, by the river Mustijoki and
Laha rapids. Artists of the exhibition:
Ossi Somma (FI), Tarja Pitkänen (FI), Petri Hytönen (FI), Heli Ryhänen (FI) and Hilkka
Kanervikko (FI).